From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqKij-0004Eu-E7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:58:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j670uoh1005127; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:56:50 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [216.148.227.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j670s4rG018741 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:54:05 GMT Received: from [66.56.24.66] (c-66-56-24-66.hsd1.ga.comcast.net[66.56.24.66]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005070700545901400f36lge>; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:55:00 +0000 Message-ID: <42CC7EFB.2020308@ieee.org> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:01:47 -0400 From: "Nathan L. Adams" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050514) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support References: <20050707002002.GH20687@lightning.stealer.net> <200507062041.43423.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050707004906.GJ20687@lightning.stealer.net> In-Reply-To: <20050707004906.GJ20687@lightning.stealer.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aca785f7-7f68-46a2-b2ba-4f5c287c3dc7 X-Archives-Hash: a16de0a926b14028a0bc3fc35680c6c6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sven Wegener wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:41:43PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:20 pm, Sven Wegener wrote: >> >>>We would like to introduce a new ebuild variable named EBUILD_FORMAT, >> >>seems like the name is much longer than it needs to be ... what's wrong with >>say 'EVER' ? > > > It's fine too. EBUILD_FORMAT was just the name that fell in > #gentoo-portage once we discussed about it. > > Sven > EVER looks like the english word 'ever'; what does it stand for? EBUILD VERSION? If so, how about EVERSION? Since when was variable name length a problem? Go with whatever best describes the variable and is easy to figure out. Nathan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCzH772QTTR4CNEQARAlimAJ0Yh80KpXqc0yZv6Gli+KqpWaKBxQCfU6pR 2WqrKs4MfY+RCgpoFxZKD8Q= =5nzV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list